netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 06/14] net: dsa: mt7530: do not set CPU port interfaces to PHY_INTERFACE_MODE

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Message-ID: <781d4288-f7c6-f3e6-a132-77bff41880c7@arinc9.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:35:15 +0300
From:   Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Richard van Schagen <richard@...terhints.com>,
        Richard van Schagen <vschagen@...com>,
        Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 06/14] net: dsa: mt7530: do not set CPU
 port interfaces to PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA

On 11.04.2023 17:54, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 04:46:18PM +0300, arinc9.unal@...il.com wrote:
>> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
>>
>> There is no need to set priv->p5_interface and priv->p6_interface to
>> PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA on mt7530_setup() and mt7531_setup().
>>
>> As Vladimir explained, in include/linux/phy.h we have:
>>
>> Therefore, do not put 0 into a variable containing 0.
> 
> The explanation is unnecessarily long. I only provided it to make sure
> you understand.

I don't see a problem with a bit of verbosity on the patch log. It 
should make the reader understand the code path better.

Arınç